Fiji+Andres+Irias

FIJI-

Fiji is a country that is part of the continent of Oceania, being close by countries like Australia, French Polynesia, New Caledonia, and even Guam. Fiji is a country that became independant by 1970 from almost a century of Brtitish control. Years later, democratic problems occured which affected the countries economy as a whole. The Area is of 18,274 sq. km. The country comparison is of 157. Land is 18,274 sq. km. and water 0 sq km.

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POPULATION- 890,057

BIRTH RATE- 20.7 births/1,000 population
 * country comparison: 84

DEATH RATE- 5.93 deaths/1,000 population
 * country comparison: 167

NET MIGRATION RATE- -7.11 migrants/1,000 population
 * country comparison: 203

INFANT MORTALITY RATE-
 * 10.73 deaths/1,000 live births
 * country comparison to the world: 141
 * male: 11.82 deaths/1,000 live births
 * female: 9.58 deaths/1,000 live births

POPULATION GROWTH RATE- 0.766%
 * country comparison: 137

LIFE EXPECTANCY-
 * total: 71.59 years
 * country comparison: 137
 * male: 69 years
 * female: 74.32 years

DOUBLING TIME- 12,715 years

Population in Fiji is this low due to the fact that 1 the country is small in comparison to others, and also tons of migration occurs. The birth rate is low because there are many diseases and deaths that occur before babies are even born, and also, the birth rate would be high in the sense that education and health is a low factor in the country so many people would not be secure. The death rate is high because medicine availability is bad, crime is high enough to cause many deaths, and diseases are affecting the whole country as a whole. The net migration can be seen as most population leaving their country and moving to another one because as seen by the other statistics, their life's aren't good at all so they decide to go out for a better life. Population growth rate is at a bad level or percent because many deaths occur in the country so the country is affected by the low population. Life expectancy compared to countries as U.S.A, in Fiji is very low because health and medicine isn't an important factor to the country or because money or funds aren't going so well to the country itself, so people is affected then by it and so they die at a young age, even though it isn't as bad as in other countries. Finally, as seen by the population and doubling time, it will take thousands of years for the population to double because the population right now is very much affected and nothing is done to lower that, so unless something can be done to help and secure people's life's and death rates, then it may probably take even more years that the estimated average.

DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION MODEL- LEDC

MAJOR POPULATION ISSUES-
 * Fiji faces the issues of AIDS due to low health and education given to the country. Also, they face obesity, because even though the country is poor, they have a vast number of foods to produce inside their country. Another issue the country faces is education because their is a lack of developness in the country that it lacks its availability of new education.



BY: ANDRES IRIAS 10th B

REFERENCES: >
 * https://www.cia.gov/library/publications/the-world-factbook/geos/fj.html